Am I the only one who thought that was a really shiny grasshopper?
this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2025
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I dont like this nonsense. They never tell you what constitutes a chirp, is it chirp chirp? Is it each chirp cause that means its 140°. Like have you ever tried to actually use this in RL? It simply doesn't work.
Its for a very specific region and a very particular cricket. So its bullshit to pass it off like some natural law
You’re telling me you cant keep track of 30-45 simple chirps off a standard reference cricket in a 15 second period? Did you even go to school dude?
standard reference cricket
Fuck
You’re telling me you cant keep track of 30-45 simple chirps off a standard reference cricket in a 15 second period?
That depends on whether it's a frictionless sphere.
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Counting the negative chirps is the worst. Like, why is there a -20ch marker if it's never -20?
Cricket will go "yeeep" if the temperature is in the negative Fahrenheit
Check out Cricketunes cry for a great cricket sound
It must be in that small part of the world where temperature is measured in Fahrenheit. Eurasian, African, Australian or even South American crickets would never do that.
Everything except metric
There are lots of cursed options
His degrees X would be a good way to show changes over long periods of time by simply graphing the annual adjustments.
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least convoluted way to measure a US measurement system
What use is the Fahrenheit measurement though? I thought only one or two countries use it.
Two countries and crickets apparently.
Just as God intended
US and ... maybe Israel? Those are the two countries that use the US "Simple English" while the rest of us know what a U is for and how to say Z... so if they also both used F that would track.
Is that an AI generated thermometer? The scaling makes no sense whatsoever lol
It makes absolutely no sense lol. Definitely AI
No, it's what happens of you don't use a metric unit
No mate look on the right side, the number 20 is repeated. Ye imperial units are fucked but we are not at a point where 20 Celsius is equal to 2 different Fahrenheit values.
look on the right side
Thanks! I looked at the wrong side at first
No, I was just kidding, including the first comment. Both sides are messed up, it was a variation of the "anything but metric" meme.
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This is bullshit
That's a grasshopper.
No wonder the weather has been so weird all week! We had the wrong insect controlling it!
That's a grasshopper.
Exactly. Quick image search will show you that cricket looks like this:
We should stop using Fahrenheit and Celsius and use chirp
And people say farenheight doesn't have a use...
I was trying to think of any situation where this would be useful and the only thing I come up with is a way to keep kids occupied during a camping trip.
Europeans in shambles
So it's 4°C, got it!
Yeah, I'm going to hunt one down, and isolate it from all the others just so I can count its chirps so the count won't be screwed up by being confused by other chirpers - all to avoid simply looking at all the other sources of said information that are much more readily available and convenient
Unless you're doing some sort of environmental science experiment while living in a post-apocalyptic world where every pre-existing analog thermometer device for accomplishing this has somehow been destroyed, this is utterly useless.
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